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# Operating Systems
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## Linux
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GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system.
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GitLab officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:
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- Ubuntu Linux
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- Debian/GNU Linux
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It should also work on (though they are not officially supported):
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- Arch
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- CentOS
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- Fedora
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- Gentoo
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- RedHat
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## Other Unix Systems
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There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating
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systems. This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X.
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**If you want to try, please proceed with caution!**
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## Windows
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GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the
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near future. Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab.
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# Rubies
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GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 and several Gems with native components.
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While it is generally possible to use other Rubies (like
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[JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/)) it might require
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some work on your part.
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# Hardware requirements
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## CPU
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We recommend a processor with **4 cores**. At a minimum you need a processor with 2 cores to responsively run an unmodified installation.
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## Memory
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We recommend you to run GitLab on a server with at least **1GB of RAM** memory. You can use it with 512MB of memory but you need to setup unicorn to use only 1 worker and you need at least 200MB of swap. The minimal requirement for an unmodified installation is 768MB. With 1.5GB of memory you should be able to support 1000+ users.
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## Storage
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The necessary hard drive space largely depends on the size of the repos you want
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to store in GitLab. But as a *rule of thumb* you should have at least twice as much
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free space as your all repos combined take up. You need twice the storage because [GitLab satellites](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/structure.md) contain an extra copy of each repo. Apart from a local hard drive you can also mount a volume that supports the network file system (NFS) protocol. This volume might be located on a file server, a network attached storage (NAS) device, a storage area network (SAN) or on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume.
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If you have enough RAM memory and a recent CPU the speed of GitLab is mainly limited by hard drive seek times. Having a fast drive (7200 RPM and up) or a solid state drive (SSD) will improve the responsiveness of GitLab.
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# Installation troubles and reporting success or failure
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If you have troubles installing GitLab following the official installation guide
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or want to share your experience installing GitLab on a not officially supported
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platform, please follow the the contribution guide (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
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